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Boxes of material
Box 1 Packed at Cashion House Potomac Park, has all the
material collected south of here, and the Reedmontown other Park
au Park and to the north.
Boxes 2-5. Material from Talle Head Cove and Sky Point south
to Herr Bay.
Box 6. Ammonites from Fort Bay, Collected July 15-1918.
" 7 Helix bygian. Material collected July 14, 1918
" 8 Material J July 15-18-1918. Also later material
" 9 Cow Head. Phyllograpus, part of Cow Head conglomerate July 30-31
" 10 Cow Head Cambrian below. Hartnurse Bonne Bay.
The few forms from Cow Head- Pauls inlet. Also other
odds and ends.
J li. cays in which the fossils are small, averaging not more 2 inches,
caves with scattered ones of a foot or two across. It is distributed
in grey massive layers 6 to 18 feet across with once overlaid bedding
plains between. While most of the shells are angular some tend to
be rounded. The cliffs here on the first layer island is 355.308. and
these layers have reproduced are about 100 feet thick. They appear to
strike into the core where the fishing houses of Cow Head peninsula
are located.